The Phenomenal excitement, success and popularity of
the National Basketball Association (NBA) has spread
like wildfire across the Asian region. And now the Asian
Basketball Association (ABA) will promoting and developing
men's professional basketball throughout Asia. Indeed,
the ABA will constitute the highest standard of basketball
in Asia.

Over the past two decades Asian basketball teams have
lagged behind their European and American counterparts
because of the lack of regular competitions and regional
championship matches. The ABA offers a new future for Asian basketball by
providing opportunities for Asian teams to compete against
one another in a league format so as to better world-class
status.

The ABA was sanctioned in 1992 exclusively by the Asian
Basketball Confederation (ABC), the official basketball
body comprising the national interests of 40 Asian countries/territories,
to establish an annual men's professional basketball
league in Asia.